People

  • Trustees
  • International Fellows
  • Postdoctoral Fellows
  • Seminar Series
  • Senior Research Fellows
  • Alumni

Trustees

Dr Deljana Iossifova (Chair)
University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Professor Jie Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.
Dr Desiree Fields
University of California, Berkeley, United States.
Professor Kenneth Gibb
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Professor Loraine Kennedy
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.
Professor Jeroen Klink
Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil.
Professor Donald McNeill
School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Dr Evert J. Meijers
Utrecht University, Netherlands.
Dr Rita Padawangi
Singapore University of Social Sciences
Professor Linda Peake
York University, Toronto, Canada.
Professor Hyun Bang Shin
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.

Seminar Series

ReCLIC: Recasting the City, Lives & Livelihoods, and Inequality in the post-Covid world
Negotiating Social Futures: the politics of land development and value capture during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Counter-mapping as urban resistance
Infrastructure, Inequality and the Neo-Apartheid City
Peripheral centralities: lost, past, present and future
Shrinking domesticities: towards a global research agenda on urban micro-living
Coastal commons: Afro-Indigenous urban solidarities
Re-thinking the spatial politics of global urbanization processes: the contested relationalities of port cities past and present
Decentering urban climate finance: relational comparison in theory and practice
Toward just environmental futures: exploring the equity dimensions of nature-based solutions in cities
European creative cities and Covid-19: exploring urban creative economies and policies in the age of Covid-19
Global Black Geographies: Racial Capitalism and Black Urban Experiences
Methodologies for just urban futures: using geospatial tools to address police violence
Temporalities of urban natures: imaginaries, narratives, and practices
The ‘Southern Tilt’ in the urban: embedded wisdom and cultural specificity as pathways to planning
Doing Indigenous urban research: creative futures and indigenising urban studies
Urban climates: power, development and environment in South Asia
Infrastructural futures across cities of the global north

Senior Research Fellows

Dr Ross Beveridge

Alumni

International Fellows

Dr Tunde Decker
Dr Kingsley Madueke
Dr Smita Yadav
Dr Melih Yeşilbag
Dr Ivana Socoloff
Dr Engida Esayas Dube
Dr Wangui Kimari
Dr Siân Butcher
Dr Kristian Saguin
Dr Jie Shen
Dr Aiden Mosselson
Dr Ingrid Olivo
Dr Andre Ortega
Dr Michel Nicolau
Dr Ruth Massey
Dr Tuna Kuyucu
Dr Nancy Odendaal
Dr Mary Lawhon
Dr Christine Mady
Dr Jorge Inzulza Contardo
Dr Shari Daya
Professor Shinichiro Iwata

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr Diarmaid Kelliher
Dr Lazaros Karaliotas
Dr Cristina Temenos
Dr Sanjeev Routray
Dr Amparo Tarazona Vento
Dr Richard Waldron
Dr Martín Arboleda
Dr Ursula Lang
Dr Heather McLean
Dr Michele Lancione
Dr Sarah Barns
Dr Cecilia Dinardi
Dr Marcin Dąbrowski
Dr Kate Derickson
Dr Sophie Bond
Dr Kim McKee

Seminar Series

Predicting neighbourhood change using big data and machine learning: implications for theory, methods, and practice
Urban metabolism in policy and practice: a global discussion
Cities in their own right: southern urban planning theories and practices
Gender equity in cities of the MENA region
Eco-communities in an urban future
Emerging urbanisms in deindustrializing city-regions: the afterlife of leftover spaces
The Welcoming City
Reconceptualising Urban Landscapes of Work
Polarization, Fragmentation and Resilience: four urban contexts compared
The Future of Urban Network Research
Doing Global Urban Research
The Edges of Home Ownership
Starting from the South: alternative visions of comparative urbanism

Senior Research Fellows

Dr Kye Askins
Professor Donald Houston
Professor Danny MacKinnon
Professor Andrew Millie

Previous Trustees

Dr Pow Choon-Piew
Professor John Flint
Professor John B. Parr
Professor Chris Philo
Professor Fulong Wu